However, just a day after Mitt announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, the two parted ways, with Ryan hitting Iowa instead. This might be because of Ryan's proposal to privatize Medicare for people under 55, which would basically screw Florida's elderly community.

In an interview Sunday night with 60 Minutes, Ryan defended his Medicare plan and did that thing where he and his peeps blame everything on Obama, saying the president diverted money from Medicare to pay for his superscary Obamacare bill.

"My mom is a Medicare senior in Florida," Ryan said. "And we need to preserve their benefits."

Of course, everyone's elderly mother living in Florida is a Medicare senior. But, hey. Semantics!

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